In an extensive article for Bloomberg Businessweek, Mark Gurman profiles Apple's head of hardware engineering, John Ternus, who is widely seen as the leading candidate to become Apple's next CEO, whenever Tim Cook decides to step down.
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The article is quite long, so we recommend reading it in full, but some of the key points are that Ternus is apparently "beloved among Apple's leadership" and has helped "reverse a trend of declining product quality" at the company.
“Since taking the top role in hardware engineering in 2021, he has overseen an expansion of Apple’s product line, improving quality and focusing on functional improvements around battery life, performance, and connectivity,” Gurman wrote.
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Cook is said to have handed over oversight of Apple's design teams to Ternus at the end of last year, and Ternus has made many more public appearances in interviews and product presentation videos in recent years. The profile provides a closer look at how Ternus has emerged as the dominant one to eventually succeed Cook.
Cook has not shared his retirement plans even with some of his closest associates, the report said, so it is unclear when he intends to step down. Cook has served as Apple's CEO since 2011 and reached the common retirement age of 65 last year. In a recent interview, he said vaguely that "I can't imagine life without Apple."
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The full Bloomberg Businessweek article is titled "Apple's 'Nice Guy' Heir Apparent."
